The Dickinson press., 1887-07-23
HISTORY OF TIE WEEK.
DAKOTA NEWS.

The location of the Congregational
college at Fargo is nov assured. 4
100000 building will be erected.
At Il special election ut Minot. last
Saturday. there was Il large majority
Ill favor of Incorporating as Il city.
Twenty-seven stations have been
established between Minot and Fort
Buford on the Manitoba extension.
Il distance of l4l miles.
The Bismarck base ball nine.
known us the Brick Bats, was defeat
ed by the Fort Lincoln team Sunday
afternoon 10y Il score of Is to is.
The Northern Pacific depot at
Wahpeton was struck by lightning
last week and burned. together with
Sl.onO worth of express and freight.
The jamestown and Valley City
gun clubs held IL shoot for 500 IL side.
The match resulted i'm Il o of LOB
to "a in favor of the Jamestown club.
Dlckcy county people are to asscm-
bic i'll convention to discuss the feast
bllity OF sinking ~arteSian wells. in ac-
cordlnce with the new territorial
law.
The explosion of a gasoline lamp in
the house of 5. u. IIaZrn. IL few miles
from Ashton. set lire to the house.
which with its contents was burned.
Loss 5000; no insurance.
Governor Church says that the
great majority of newspapers are
edited by talr minded men, and us II
public official he expects his acts to
be subjects of fair criticisms.
Up i'll Pembina county i. local on
ton petition with LOCO namcs was
left with Il bartender, who instead of
presenting it to the county commits.
%sionrrs. quietly Slipped ovrr into
Manitoba with it.
The meeting of the brotherhood of
locomotive engineers ut Fargo was
attended by 200 delegates from all
parts of the country. Grand Chief
Engineer Arthur was present and al.
dressed the meeting.
M%cnnomites from Manitoba an,
making large settlements near Lang.
don. They are bringing plenty OF
stock. money and farm machinery
with them.
Governor Church's rooms at TIN,
capitol are being handsomely r~clittct
during his absence and upon his re
turn he will find Il magnificent rNcrll
tive chamber awaiting him.
Commissioner Mcclure is Il bus,
man and in IL few weeks he will b,
receiving compliments from ever,
paper in the northwest for his excel
lent work in the interest of immi
grafton to Dakota.
The annual camp meeting of th,
Methodist church for North Dakol;
, will commence OH the 9th of tlli
month, ut Grafton. in the beautiful
grove near the town.
The railroad grade from parl
River to l.ang'lon, the county seat o
Cavilicr county, is about finished
The bridge work has been com
mrnccd and the completion of tn,
road is expected by Aug. Is.
The grand jury found Indictment,
against the Dealwood Times ull,
Thomas $. White of the Mining En-
gineer charging them with criminal
libel in p~ronounciny the Big Ben,
Hydraulic Mining company IL fraud.
August Swanson, who had IL claim
near Erickson and who was absent
working OH the Manitoba extension
was struck by lightning neal For,
Buford and killed. His body WA.
) buried on the line of the road.
Adjutmt General Tyner has Sc
!, cured from the Northwestern. North
ern Pacific. Milwaukee and Malitoh;
roads rates of | cent per mile for tin,
territorial militia going to and re
I turning from the annual cncampment
| The location of the encampment i
/. not yet determined upon.
+ Mining matters are improving il
the central Black Hills. More tin
sales are reported, and the gold am,
silver claims of Pennington count,
l are being worked with ~unaccustomc,
: energy. In the upper camps dullncS
, increases rather than dimiuishes.
Work is in progress OH the continu
alton of the survey of the Duluth
Watertown & Pacific railroad. from
Matertown via lroquois to Woonsuc
ket, and thence Ill Il southwestern
direction. The permanent survey i
now made as far as W~oonsocket. am,
cross sectioning is we'll under way.
The Indians in the vicinity of Rut
land feel satisfied with the severalt,
law and wish to become citizens witt
all the rights of white men. The,
think that the government SHOULD
/ give each man. woman and child Is,
acres of land. There are l.OUu,Ou,
acres of land III the reservation AN,
they think that 100 acres per capit;
would be little enough to give them.
John c. Mcbride. the oldest Whit,
man in Dakota, died ut Yankton I'm
dian agency last week. MI. McI5rid,
came to Dakota fifty years ago, an,
was then in the employ OF the Ameri
can Fur company and remained Will
them until they left the country
when he settled on the Missouri rive,
near the mouth of the Sioux. III,
was a member of the first Dakot;
legislature. representing Union count,
~ ~ Aio'h'S W. pSoCllltillN cS.
Gov. Church has appointed as aides
de-camp on his staff the followin.
persons. each with the rank o.
colonel: c. b. Little, Bismarck: VIM
II. Prick. Sioux Falls; Frank Vale
Canton; Silas w. Swift, Yankton
VIM. III. Tomby, Perma; Isaac =
Baker. Bismarck: Geo. III. Corey
Corey; James Collistcr. Dickinson
Tllos. j. Wicder. Casselton: Nj. X
hartman, Grafton: Jas. q. Webb
Pembina: o. +. Dewey, Watcrtown
John II, Drake, Aberdeen and j.. IL
Mulcahey, Fargo,
Judge Francis made Il clean swee,
of his court work at Valley City dun.
ing the term just closed, and al
though he cleared the docket he sent
but n man to Bismarck. This MAJ
is Patrick Murphy and lie was giver
ten months for grand larceny. One
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